Sean Michael Kerner

Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) is expanding its Fibre Channel product lineup with new 16 Gbps solutions. The new 16 Gbps Fibre Channel products from Brocade include the DCX 8510 SAN Backbone. The DCX 8510 can support up to 384, 16 Gbps Fibre Channel ports delivering total chassis bandwidth of 8.2 terabits per second. Brocade is also […]

From the ‘But What About Miguel?‘ files: Attachmate is moving swiftly to re-organize the Novell business it acquired for $2.2 billion. Today Attachmate laid off an unknown number of U.S. based Novell developers that were working on the open source Mono project. Mono is the Novell led effort to provide an open source implementation of […]

Juniper (NYSE:JNPR) is expanding its routing lineup with a series of Universal Edge routers. The Universal Edge includes the MX5, MX10 and MX40 platforms. The MX5 provides up to 20 Gbps of system capacity, the MX10 scales to 40 Gbps, while the MX40 delivers 60 Gbps of capacity. The new Universal Edge fills out a […]

Two of the hottest features in the database world are coming to the open source PostgreSQL 9.1 database. The upcoming PostgreSQL 9.1 release including in-memory caching by way its unlogged tables feature. The unlogged table feature is not intended as a high-availability caching feature. Rather, the use case is for the caching to provide a […]

Data Centers come in all shapes and sizes. Now Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is delivering full data centers in a container box. The new Cisco Containerized Data Center can fit 16 racks of servers, providing up to 44RU of available rack space. In terms of comparing the cost of a containerized data center versus a brick and […]

From the ‘GCC Rules‘ files: Have you tried Firefox 4 on Linux and then tried Firefox on a friend’s Windows 7 PC? The experience isn’t the same and that’s not good news for Linux users. Mozilla is apparently aware of the issue and they are taking steps to improve Firefox 4’s performance on Linux. “We […]

The 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100 GbE) standard was finalized in June of 2010 as IEEE 802.3ba and now the technology is moving into the implementation phase. As to why carriers are choosing to deploy 100 GbE, it’s often a question of the management cost of link aggregation complexity. Many carriers today have link aggregation strategies […]

From the ‘Old School‘ files: I have to admit that it has been more years than I care to remember since I last installed Slackware on my desktop. The slackware 13.37 release came out this week and due to its excellent timing, it’s now on my (multi-boot, thank GRUB!) desktop. You see, I also had […]

From the ‘Hacker Inside‘ files: Jeff Moss (aka Dark Tangent), founder of the Black Hat security conference, was appointed the new CSO for ICANN this week. Congrats. I’m not surprised at this new post though. For the last three years or so, I’ve seen ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom at Black Hat events, always being really […]

Firefox 4.0.1 is now out, providing at least 14 fixes for security vulnerabilities in the open source web browser. The 14 fixed vulnerabilities include 10 critical flaws with memory safety issues and three critical flaws in the WebGLES graphics library. One of the WebGLES flaws isn’t unique to Firefox and also affected Google’s Chrome web […]

“I don’t need every customer. I’m primarily in the business of selling a product for money. How much effort do I really want to devote to satisfying people who are unable or extremely unlikely to pay for anything?” Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper explaining why Instapaper is no longer available as a free app. (Marco.org) […]